#OnthisDay

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JamesMWilliam18

#OnThisDay 1987 civil rights activist Septima Poinsetta Clark died on St. John's Island, SC. Who was Septima Clark?Glad you asked. Source: https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/clark-septima-poinsette The daughter of formerly

Jeremy Hopkin

jeremy_hopkin

#OnThisDay 100 yrs. ago, 'The Forum' building in Toronto was destroyed by fire.   Located on the S.E. corner of the Gerrard St. & Yonge St. intersection since 1890, The Forum

Durham Miners' Association

DurhamMiners

The Durham Miners' Association was founded #OnThisDay in 1869.Pictured is the first generation of the union’s leaders, among them William Patterson & Thomas Ramsey who spent the following two years

KEPT THE FAITH, BABY! SI SE PUEDE!

JamesMWilliam18

#OnThisDay IT'S MY BIRTHDAY! I'm 61 years old today, a day I share with Michael Jordan, Huey P. Newton and footballer Jim Brown.Thanks to my Dad and Mother for being

Following Hadrian

carolemadge

#onthisday 117 AD, after a 19-year reign of military glory, Trajan dies at Selinus in western Cilicia.Read more https://followinghadrian.com/2017/08/08/8th-august-117-ad-trajan-dies-at-selinus-hadrian1900/ The Fountain of Trajan in #Ephesus

PNSN

PNSN1

#OnThisDay 321 years ago, Jan. 26, 1700 (at 9pm to be exact), the Pacific Northwest was rocked by the last great Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake that sent tsunami waves all

Kristoffer Pasion

indiohistorian

#TodayinHistory in 1869, the Suez Canal opened, enabling #PH to have faster exchange of info & gain direct economic relations w/ Spain w/c used to be via Mexico. It shortened

Arunabha Sengupta

senantix

Thread: Jim Laker (born 9 Feb 1922) was so grooved that he could have run in to bowl blindfolded. #cricket #onthisday @surreycricket His accuracy was supreme. Once he said: “I

Arunabha Sengupta

senantix

Thread: Andy Roberts, born #onthisday 1951.He used to walk back to his mark, the eyes cold and calculating, the face expressionless and half hidden behind the beard, the shoulders hunched

Nexus Consulting

funwithfundas

"I was thrilled by the fellow's fragile health,powerful eyes, and chiselled face. The dark skin...was an advantage." K Balachander on a young man he cast in Apoorva Raagangal, which released

Shivasis Mohanty

ImShivasis

#OnThisDay in 1945,Netaji #SubhashChandraBose,supposedly died in an airplane crash in present day Taiwan.Conspiracy theories have floated since then,ranging from him becoming a sanyasi under the guise of Gumnaami Baba to

Shivasis Mohanty

ImShivasis

#OnThisDay,at this exact moment, American Airlines flight 11 crashed through the North tower of World Trade Centre And that was the start of a terror attack of unprecedented horror,the effects

Kristoffer Pasion

indiohistorian

#TodayinHistory in 1901, U.S. military gov-gen of #PH, Arthur MacArthur, father of Douglas MacArthur, ordered the exile of captured leaders of the 1st #PH Republic who refused to swear allegiance

Civil War Humor

CivilWarHumor

#OnThisDay in 1861, the First Battle of Boonville took place in central Missouri. Actually, the word “battle” is a bit much; it was a skirmish, with a handful of casualties.

North Stand Gang - Wankhede

NorthStandGang

Sir Donald George Bradman#OnThisDay, The Greatest of All Time reaches a century of FC centuries!At the @SCG, for Aus XI vs India in an FC game in 1947And what a

Mayukh Ghosh

stock_delivery

Not many have written a great cricket book before turning 35.But there's one person who wrote FOUR of them before turning 35.This is a thread on him.One of the great

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